Hearts of Iron II Doomsday

[Glaucus]

Can someone tell me what this game is all about? A quick summary and answer these questions:

Is it like RTW as in campaign mode and battle mode? Is it turn based?

How big is the map? Just Europe? Or Europe/Asia/Africa? Or whole world?

Replayability? If I play Italy once will it always be the same, or will the outcome be totally different depending on what choices I make?

Different types of units? For instance, is it simply "infantry" or do different nations have different units with different pros and cons?

Thanks.

[Csargo]

Can someone tell me what this game is all about? A quick summary and answer these questions:

Is it like RTW as in campaign mode and battle mode? Is it turn based?

How big is the map? Just Europe? Or Europe/Asia/Africa? Or whole world?

Replayability? If I play Italy once will it always be the same, or will the outcome be totally different depending on what choices I make?

Different types of units? For instance, is it simply "infantry" or do different nations have different units with different pros and cons?

Thanks.

1. No totally different and No it goes in real time you can change the speed of the game to whatever you want.

2. The entire world

3. Not that I've noticed I've never seen a game exactly the same since I started playing.

4. It's simply infantry but you can add on brigades such as Artillery etc.

[GoreBag]

To eloborate on the 'infantry' point, there are several kinds of foot troops - 'infantry' is the catch-all term for the basic division. There are also marines, mountaineers, paratroopers, militia, garrisons, motorized infantry, mechanised infantry and cavalry. I can't remember if Air Cavalry are an upgrade along the cavalry line or a separate unit altogether..

As you can see, the units are abstracted but they have to be because of the size of the game. As well, different countries also follow different lines of tactics , which increase their units' abilities in certain areas, like night-fighting, for example.

[Glaucus]

So is it sort of like risk where armies attack each other and each army looses men until one is detroyed? Or can you command the battle personally?

[Csargo]

So is it sort of like risk where armies attack each other and each army looses men until one is detroyed? Or can you command the battle personally?

No not really. The map has thousands of provinces in it.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...reenindex.html

There's some screenshots of it.

[Glaucus]

Nice! Thanks man.